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Can panda penalize News publisher sites?

Hey Guys,
I was wondering how Panda behaves with news publisher sites.
A site with +-1M visits a day that publishes +-300 news articles a day and the life of each article is one week top, given the nature of a news articles -->only relevant now.
After one week the the news articles have virtually no page views.
This results on a site with thousands of quality content pages that has no page views for years.
Is it possible that the site gets penalized by panda for having thousands of pages with no visits?

1 Response

One is that keeping a developing story on one webpage and updating it is a way to have a news page that can build rank.

Another is that news websites that are authoritative and/or do their own original writing can do well. Here are the links to the two relevant videos. (Kind of old, I know.)

http://youtu.be/9FrzDyRqsY4http://youtu.be/mtbNpeYP_OM

We have news on our website (not at all the major focus - just as a handy reference for users) and it is also valuable to us because Google news picks it up, but since those pages weren't getting traffic after the day the news story appeared, I started removing old ones to be on the safe side. (Though that might not be workable for a site whose main focus is news and needs to keep living archives.)

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